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From: Daniel Champion
Date: Jan 11, 2006 8:34AM

Jukka wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Daniel Champion wrote:

>> Some users don't
>> know how to change the text size in their browser and benefit from a
>> visible control.

> They need to learn to use that, too, in order to benefit from it.
> And it may give _less_ functionality than the browser function.

Indeed, but it's a far more intuitive and obvious control than View ->
Text Size -> Increase. It's provided as a convenience to the user.

> Is it useful to users to make them learn to use _your_ widget, as
opposite
> to learning ways that work on the billions of pages on the Web?

It's useful when the user is unaware of the alternative. As I stated
before my primary goal is to deliver information to my users, not to
educate them in the ways of their browser of choice. If I can educate them
at the same time then that's a positive bonus, but if the choice was
between users not being able to access information due to their lack of
knowledge of browser configuration, or providing a simple, easy to produce
visual text-size control, which would you choose?

Dan
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